Robert Young

Robert Young

Born: February 22, 1907
Died: July 21, 1998
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Robert George Young  (February 22, 1907 – July 21, 1998) was an American television, film, and radio actor, best known for his leading roles as Jim Anderson, the father of Father Knows Best (NBC and then CBS) and as physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC).

Young appeared in over 100 films between 1931 and 1952. After appearing on stage, Young was signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and, in spite of having a "tier B" status, he co-starred with some of the studio's most illustrious actresses, such as Katharine Hepburn, Margaret Sullavan, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Helen Hayes, Luise Rainer, Hedy Lamarr, and Helen Twelvetrees. Yet, most of his assignments consisted of B movies, also known as "programmers," which required two to three weeks of shooting (considered very brief shooting periods at the time). Actors who were relegated to such a hectic schedule appeared, as Young did, in some six to eight movies per year.

As an MGM contract player, Young was resigned to the fate of most of his colleagues—to accept any film assigned to him or risk being placed on suspension—and many actors on suspension were prohibited from earning a salary from any endeavor at all (even those unrelated to the film industry). In 1936, MGM summarily loaned Young to Gaumont British for two films; the first was directed by Alfred Hitchcock with the other co-starring Jessie Matthews. While there he surmised that his employers intended to terminate his contract, but he was mistaken.

He unexpectedly received one of his most rewarding roles late in his MGM career, in H.M. Pulham, Esq., featuring one of Hedy Lamarr's most effective performances. He once remarked that he was assigned only those roles which Robert Montgomery and other A-list actors had rejected.

After his contract ended at MGM, Young starred in light comedies as well as in trenchant dramas for studios such as 20th Century Fox, United Artists, and RKO Radio Pictures. From 1943, Young assayed more challenging roles in films like Claudia, The Enchanted Cottage, They Won't Believe Me, The Second Woman, and Crossfire. His portrayal of unsympathetic characters in several of these later films—which was seldom the case in his MGM pictures—was applauded by numerous reviewers.

Young's career began an incremental and imperceptible decline, despite a propitious beginning as a freelance actor without the nurturing of a major studio. He continued starring as a leading man in the late 1940s and early 1950s, but only in mediocre films, then he subsequently disappeared from the silver screen - only to reappear several years later on a much smaller one.

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Movies for Robert Young...

That's Entertainment! III
Title: That's Entertainment! III
Character: (archive footage)
Released: July 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
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Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Title: Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Character: (archive footage)
Released: June 4, 1990
Type: Movie
This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed commentary delivered on camera by Kathleen Turner. Turner walks us through Loy's career as a dancer and an actress miscast as an exotic. She comes into her own as a grown-up women: shrewd, funny, decorous, and sexy - in "Manhattan Melodrama" and "The Thin Man." Her volunteer work during World War II, later stage work, and progressive politics come in for admiration as well. It's her style - seen best in her roles as a wife of charm and independence - that's captured and celebrated here.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic
Title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic
Character: Self
Released: February 20, 1990
Type: Movie
Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews of cast and crew members, their families and fans of the film.
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Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair
Title: Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair
Character: Dr. Marcus Welby
Released: December 19, 1988
Type: Movie
Robert Young brings his Marcus Welby alter ego to television for one last time. Having retired, the good doctor takes a trip to Europe alone and falls in love with an American divorcee who is caring for a blind dancer.
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A Conspiracy of Love
Title: A Conspiracy of Love
Character: Joe Woldarski
Released: October 18, 1987
Type: Movie
A woman's husband apparently has deserted her and their daughter. So she decides to get on with her life which might include dissolving their union and seeing someone else. However, her in-laws, her husband's parents feel that she's acting very hastily, so she leaves their home with her daughter whom they love very much. She decides to limit their access to her daughter, but grandfather and granddaughter see each other on the sly.
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Mercy or Murder?
Title: Mercy or Murder?
Character: Roswell Gilbert
Released: January 11, 1987
Type: Movie
Roswell and Emily Gilbert were married for fifty-one years, but for the eight final years of their marriage Emily suffered from Alzheimer's disease and the bone disease osteoporosis. Often in pain, Emily begged to die. In March 1985, 75-year-old Roswell shot Emily in the head. He said it was an act of mercy, but he was tried for murder and convicted as the nation debated euthanasia.
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The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
Title: The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
Character: Dr. Marcus Welby
Released: May 16, 1984
Type: Movie
Marcus Welby is back, and he has a few problems. First he is trying to bridge the gap between an old friend of his who gave up practicing medicine in favor of being the hospital administrator, and his son who is now a doctor and who is currently treating and romancing a woman who has kidney problems. And one of his patients an expectant mother is in an accident along with her husband and her husband dies. She blames Mark and is refusing to bond with her new baby. And the hospital that he has been serving faithfully for years is considering letting some of their elderly staff members go and Mark is on top of the list.
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Hollywood’s Children
Title: Hollywood’s Children
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 24, 1982
Type: Movie
A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell).
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Title: Little Women
Character: Mr. Laurence
Released: October 2, 1978
Type: TV
The two part miniseries chronicles the lives and loves of the four March sisters – Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth – growing up during the American Civil War. While their father leaves for battle, the sisters must rely on each other for strength in the face of tragedies both large and small.
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Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas
Title: Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas
Character: Jim Anderson
Released: December 18, 1977
Type: Movie
The original cast of "Father Knows Best" returns for the second reunion movie. After learning that none of the children will be home for Christmas, Jim and Margaret decide to sell their house.
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The Father Knows Best Reunion
Title: The Father Knows Best Reunion
Character: James Anderson
Released: May 15, 1977
Type: Movie
First of two reunion movies starring the original cast of the popular 1950's series "Father Knows Best." Jim and Margaret Anderson invite their children and grandchildren for a visit to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Title: That's Entertainment, Part II
Character: (archive footage)
Released: May 16, 1976
Type: Movie
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
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Title: Donny & Marie
Character: Self
Released: January 23, 1976
Type: TV
Donny & Marie is an American variety show which aired on ABC from January 1976 to January 1979. The show stars brother and sister pop duo Donny Osmond and Marie Osmond. Donny had first become popular singing in a music group with his brothers, The Osmonds, and Marie was one of the youngest singers to reach #1 on the Billboard Country Music charts. The siblings were offered a weekly show by ABC-TV President Fred Silverman after he saw the duo co-host a week on The Mike Douglas Show which followed their series of popular remakes of oldies, such as "I'm Leaving It Up To You", "Morning Side Of The Mountain", "Deep Purple" and "Make The World Go Away". Donny and Marie were the youngest entertainers in TV history to host their own variety show. A year later, The Keane Brothers would break this record.
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That's Entertainment!
Title: That's Entertainment!
Character: (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: June 21, 1974
Type: Movie
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
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My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
Title: My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
Character: Judge Charles Raleigh
Released: November 8, 1973
Type: Movie
In this sequel, the daughters' anniversary present is the news that their widowed father is about to get remarried.
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All My Darling Daughters
Title: All My Darling Daughters
Character: Judge Charles Raleigh
Released: November 22, 1972
Type: Movie
A judge has to deal with his four daughters, his four future sons-in-law and four weddings all on the same day.
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Title: Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Character: Dr. Marcus Welby
Released: September 16, 1971
Type: TV
Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law is an American legal drama, jointly created by David Victor and former law professor Jerry McNeely, that starred actor Arthur Hill. The series was broadcast on ABC from 1971 to 1974. A two-hour pilot movie had aired as a 1971 ABC Movie of the Week entry prior to the series run.
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Title: Vanished
Character: Sen. Earl Gannon
Released: March 8, 1971
Type: TV
Government agencies investigate the mysterious disappearance of a powerful presidential adviser.
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Title: Marcus Welby, M.D.
Character: Dr. Marcus Welby
Released: September 23, 1969
Type: TV
Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and James Brolin as the younger doctor he often worked with, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.
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Marcus Welby, M.D.
Title: Marcus Welby, M.D.
Character: Marcus Welby
Released: March 26, 1969
Type: Movie
The pilot film for the long-run series introduced the kindly small-town general practitioner who, following a mild coronary, grudgingly brings in an independent, motorcycling young associate to help share his workload. Welby's lady friend and his family, part of the plot of this movie, were written out of the subsequent series, with only his medical sidekick, Steven Kiley, and their secretary/nurse, Consuelo, remaining as regulars.
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Title: The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 1969
Type: TV
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour is an American network television music and comedy variety show hosted by singer Glen Campbell from January 1969 through June 1972 on CBS. He was offered the show after he hosted a 1968 summer replacement for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Campbell used "Gentle on My Mind" as the theme song of the show. The show was one of the few rural-oriented shows to survive CBS's rural purge of 1971.
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Title: The Name of the Game
Character: Herman Allison
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
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Title: The Dick Cavett Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 6, 1968
Type: TV
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
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Title: ABC Stage 67
Character: Self - Host
Released: September 14, 1966
Type: TV
ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, and original musicals. It premiered on American Broadcasting Company on September 14, 1966 with Murray Schisgal's The Love Song of Barney Kempinksi, directed by Stanley Prager and starring Alan Arkin as a man enjoying the sights and sounds of New York City in his last remaining hours of bachelorhood. Arkin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama and the program was nominated as Outstanding Dramatic Program. Future programs included appearances by Petula Clark, Bobby Darin, Sir Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Peter Sellers, David Frost, and Jack Paar. ABC's effort to bring culture to the masses was a noble but unsuccessful experiment. Scheduled first against I Spy on Wednesdays and then The Dean Martin Show on Thursdays, the show consistently received low ratings. Its last production, an adaptation of Jean Cocteau's one-woman play The Human Voice starring Ingrid Bergman, aired on May 4, 1967. "Stage 67" was not actually a part of the primary ABC facilities in Los Angeles. It was produced at the old Monogram Studios backlot that was later sold to KCET.
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Highball Highway
Title: Highball Highway
Character: Himself
Released: August 4, 1963
Type: Movie
A driver who got into an accident while drunk wakes up in the hospital and discovers that his leg has been amputated. As he's lying in bed, he begins to wonder what happened to the passengers in his car.
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Title: The Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
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Title: Window on Main Street
Released: October 2, 1961
Type: TV
Window on Main Street is an American half-hour comedy-drama television series starring Robert Young, which aired on CBS during the 1961-1962 season. Created by Roswell Rogers, Window on Main Street was produced by its star, Robert Young.
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Title: Dr. Kildare
Character: Dr. Gilbert Winfield
Released: September 27, 1961
Type: TV
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Self - Recipient
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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Title: Climax!
Character: Lieutenant Commander Knowles
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Title: Father Knows Best
Character: Jim Anderson
Released: October 3, 1954
Type: TV
Family man Jim Anderson copes with the everyday problems among his wife Margaret and their three children as they experience day-to-day changes.
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Secret of the Incas
Title: Secret of the Incas
Character: Stanley Moorehead
Released: June 6, 1954
Type: Movie
Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) is a tourist guide determined to make his fortune by finding the Sunburst, an Inca treasure.
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The Big Moment
Title: The Big Moment
Character: Narrator
Released: March 7, 1954
Type: Movie
Three individual stories that give an account of crucial moments in the lives of three different people: one is a young thief from Casablanca, another is an immigrant doctor brought to the United States and the third is a girl who survived the Holocaust. All three are given a chance to live with dignity and self-respect.
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Title: This Is Your Life
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.
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The Half-Breed
Title: The Half-Breed
Character: Dan Craig
Released: May 3, 1952
Type: Movie
An Apache of mixed blood tries to make peace between Indians and whites.
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Goodbye, My Fancy
Title: Goodbye, My Fancy
Character: Doctor James Merrill
Released: May 19, 1951
Type: Movie
Agatha has fond memories of her romance with college president Dr. James Merrill, when she was a student and he was her professor, and wants to see if there is still a spark between them.
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The Second Woman
Title: The Second Woman
Character: Jeff Cohalan
Released: July 7, 1950
Type: Movie
In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Ellen is strongly attracted to Jeff, who's being plagued by unexplainable accidents, major and minor. Bad luck, persecution...or paranoia? Warned that Jeff could be dangerous, Ellen fears that he's in danger, as the menacing atmosphere darkens.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Panelist
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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And Baby Makes Three
Title: And Baby Makes Three
Character: Vernon 'Vern' Walsh
Released: December 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.
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Bride for Sale
Title: Bride for Sale
Character: Stephen Tracy Adams
Released: November 12, 1949
Type: Movie
Nora Shelley is a tax expert for the accounting company which is led by Paul Martin. She thinks she can find a suitable husband by inspecting their clients' tax documents. Martin finds out and tries to dissuade her from this approach, later enlisting the help of his friend Steve Adams, who tries to woo Shelley.
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That Forsyte Woman
Title: That Forsyte Woman
Character: Philip Bosinney
Released: November 3, 1949
Type: Movie
Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teenager June Forsyte has found love with an artist, Phillip Bosinny. The interactions between the Forsytes and the people and society around them is the truss for this love story set in the rigid and strict times of the Victorian age.
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Adventure in Baltimore
Title: Adventure in Baltimore
Character: Dr. Andrew Sheldon
Released: April 19, 1949
Type: Movie
Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl's school who starts campaigning for women's rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do not approve.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Relentless
Title: Relentless
Character: Nick Buckley
Released: June 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A man wrongly accused of murder tracks the true culprit across the desert.
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Sitting Pretty
Title: Sitting Pretty
Character: Harry King
Released: March 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
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Crossfire
Title: Crossfire
Character: Finlay
Released: August 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?
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They Won't Believe Me
Title: They Won't Believe Me
Character: Larry Ballentine
Released: July 16, 1947
Type: Movie
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
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Lady Luck
Title: Lady Luck
Character: Larry Scott
Released: October 30, 1946
Type: Movie
A woman marries a gambler with the hopes of reforming him, but things don't quite work out the way she planned.
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The Searching Wind
Title: The Searching Wind
Character: Alex Hazen
Released: August 9, 1946
Type: Movie
With a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle's 1946 drama stars Robert Young as a U.S. ambassador in Europe in the years before WW2.
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Claudia and David
Title: Claudia and David
Character: David Naughton
Released: February 25, 1946
Type: Movie
The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles as a young married couple living in a small Connecticut town.
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Those Endearing Young Charms
Title: Those Endearing Young Charms
Character: Lt. Hurley 'Hank' Travers
Released: June 19, 1945
Type: Movie
A soldier loses his girlfriend to his best buddy.
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The Enchanted Cottage
Title: The Enchanted Cottage
Character: Oliver Bradford
Released: April 28, 1945
Type: Movie
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.
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The Canterville Ghost
Title: The Canterville Ghost
Character: Cuffy Williams
Released: July 20, 1944
Type: Movie
The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.
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Twenty Years After
Title: Twenty Years After
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
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Claudia
Title: Claudia
Character: David Naughton
Released: November 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Child bride Claudia Naughton has made life difficult for her husband David because she can't stand living so far away from her mother. She's also afraid her husband doesn't find her desirable enough. To remedy both situations, she sells their farm to an opera singer so they'll have to move back to the city near her mother, and she tries to make her husband jealous by flirting with a neighbor. Eventually, Claudia has to learn to grow when she discovers that she's about to become a mother and that her own mother is gravely ill.
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Title: Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Character: Samuel Magee
Released: October 1, 1943
Type: Movie
An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometown.
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Slightly Dangerous
Title: Slightly Dangerous
Character: Bob Stuart
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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Journey for Margaret
Title: Journey for Margaret
Character: John Davis
Released: December 17, 1942
Type: Movie
An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII. After a shrapnel wound and loss of her baby she returns to America. War weary, he is forced to do a story about war orphans, where he meets Margaret.
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Cairo
Title: Cairo
Character: Homer Smith, aka Juniper Jones
Released: August 17, 1942
Type: Movie
Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.
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Joe Smith, American
Title: Joe Smith, American
Character: Joe Smith
Released: February 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
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H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Title: H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Character: Harry Moulton Pulham
Released: December 4, 1941
Type: Movie
A man who lived his life as he was told he should, not as he would have chosen to, is brought out of his shell by a beautiful young woman.
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Married Bachelor
Title: Married Bachelor
Character: Randolph Haven
Released: October 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentric professor) in order to pay off a debt to a gangster.
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Lady Be Good
Title: Lady Be Good
Character: Edward 'Eddie' Crane
Released: September 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show.
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Western Union
Title: Western Union
Character: Richard Blake
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
Title: The Trial of Mary Dugan
Character: Jimmy Blake
Released: February 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Mary Dugan is a young woman accused of murdering her billionaire lover. In the process, his defense lawyer acts wrongly against them, and is replaced by a young lawyer, the brother of the accused
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Title: Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Character: Douglas Lamont
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Title: A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Character: Self
Released: October 24, 1940
Type: Movie
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created.
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Sporting Blood
Title: Sporting Blood
Character: Myles Vanders
Released: July 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the big race looms nearer, Myles is distracted to discover that he really loves Linda.
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The Mortal Storm
Title: The Mortal Storm
Character: Fritz Marberg
Released: June 20, 1940
Type: Movie
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Brietner, a family friend is caught up in the turmoil.
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Florian
Title: Florian
Character: Anton Erban
Released: June 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
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Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Title: Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Character: Self
Released: May 29, 1940
Type: Movie
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features.
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Northwest Passage
Title: Northwest Passage
Character: Langdon Towne
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses on their famous raid at Fort St. Francis and their marches before and after the battle.
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Northward, Ho!
Title: Northward, Ho!
Character: Himself
Released: February 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Behind-the-scenes promotional featurette to publicize the epic outdoor adventure Northwest Passage filmed on location in Idaho.
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Miracles for Sale
Title: Miracles for Sale
Character: Michael Morgan
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
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Maisie
Title: Maisie
Character: Charles 'Slim' Martin
Released: June 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman Charles "Slim" Martin when he accuses her of lifting his wallet and ends up being hired as a maid for ranch owners Cliff and Sybil, who are attempting to mend their rocky marriage after Sybil's infidelity with a cowboy.
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Bridal Suite
Title: Bridal Suite
Character: Neil McGill
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.
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Hollywood Hobbies
Title: Hollywood Hobbies
Character: Himself (uncredited)
Released: May 3, 1939
Type: Movie
In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.
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Honolulu
Title: Honolulu
Character: Brooks Mason / George Smith
Released: February 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
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The Shining Hour
Title: The Shining Hour
Character: David Linden
Released: November 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
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Rich Man, Poor Girl
Title: Rich Man, Poor Girl
Character: Bill Harrison
Released: August 12, 1938
Type: Movie
A millionaire courts a working-class woman.
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Hollywood Goes to Town
Title: Hollywood Goes to Town
Character: Self
Released: July 7, 1938
Type: Movie
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre. We see the street leading to the theatre transformed to suggest a garden that might be seen in a French palace. This includes the placement of trees and other foliage, as well as large statues along the route. Grandstands are set up so fans can see their favorite stars as they arrive for the premiere. Finally, the proverbial "galaxy of stars" arrives in their limousines. Fanny Brice and Pete Smith make remarks at the microphone set up on the carpet outside the theatre.
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The Toy Wife
Title: The Toy Wife
Character: Andre Vallaire
Released: June 10, 1938
Type: Movie
A Southern belle finds herself torn between two suitors.
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Paradise for Three
Title: Paradise for Three
Character: Fritz Hagedorn
Released: June 4, 1938
Type: Movie
A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.
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Josette
Title: Josette
Character: Pierre Brassard
Released: June 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
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Three Comrades
Title: Three Comrades
Character: Gottfried Lenz
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.
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Navy Blue and Gold
Title: Navy Blue and Gold
Character: Roger 'Rog' Ash
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.
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The Bride Wore Red
Title: The Bride Wore Red
Character: Rudolph 'Rudi' Pal
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
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The Romance of Celluloid
Title: The Romance of Celluloid
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater, are presented. They include: the production of celluloid aka film stock, the materials used in the production of which include cotton and silver; construction crews who build sets including those to look like cities, towns and villages around the world; a visit with Jack Dawn who demonstrates the process of creating a makeup design; the screen testing process, where many an acting hopeful gets his/her start; the work of the candid camera man, the prying eyes behind the movie camera; a visit with Adrian, who designs the clothes worn by many of the stars on screen; and a visit with Herbert Stothart as he conducts his musical score for Conquest (1937). These behind the scenes looks provide the opportunity to get acquainted with the cavalcade of MGM stars and their productions that will grace the silver screen in the 1937/38 movie season.
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Title: The Emperor's Candlesticks
Character: Grand Duke Peter
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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Married Before Breakfast
Title: Married Before Breakfast
Character: Tom Wakefield
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
A madcap inventor tries to market a razor-less shaving cream.
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I Met Him in Paris
Title: I Met Him in Paris
Character: Gene Anders
Released: May 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into a junket to Switzerland, but George (with no illusions about his friend) appoints himself chaperone. Through a series of slapstick winter sports, Kay remains puzzled about George's disapproval of Gene...but there's a reason.
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Dangerous Number
Title: Dangerous Number
Character: Hank
Released: January 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave the groom-to-be and marry him. Shortly after the marriage, they discover that they have nothing in common. They separate. Hank decides to pick any name from the phone book and date them. That date results in a wild and frightful night for Hank, thanks to Eleanor's clever plan.
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Stowaway
Title: Stowaway
Character: Tommy Randall
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Chin-Ching gets lost in Shanghai and is befriended by American playboy Tommy Randall. She falls asleep in his car which winds up on a ship headed for America. Susan Parker, also on the ship, marries Randall to give Chin-Ching a family.
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The Longest Night
Title: The Longest Night
Character: Charley Phelps
Released: October 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
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Sworn Enemy
Title: Sworn Enemy
Character: Henry 'Hank' Sherman
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
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The Bride Walks Out
Title: The Bride Walks Out
Character: Hugh McKenzie
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Carolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin. But part of the marriage arrangement requires that Carolyn quit her $50-per-week modeling job to be a full-time housewife; the couple will instead live on Michael’s $35-per-week job.
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Secret Agent
Title: Secret Agent
Character: Robert Marvin
Released: May 31, 1936
Type: Movie
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
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It's Love Again
Title: It's Love Again
Character: Peter Carlton
Released: May 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Elaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page. So, Peter invents "Mrs. Smythe-Smythe", a mysterious Englishwoman who spends her days hunting tigers in India, jumping out of airplanes, and generally driving men mad with her beauty. Since no one in London has ever seen Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, Elaine decides to impersonate the lady, in hopes that the publicity will land her the big break she's been looking for.
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The Bride Comes Home
Title: The Bride Comes Home
Character: Jack Bristow
Released: December 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in her than in their publishing venture.
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Remember Last Night?
Title: Remember Last Night?
Character: Tony Milburn
Released: October 28, 1935
Type: Movie
After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed.
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Red Salute
Title: Red Salute
Character: Jeff
Released: September 12, 1935
Type: Movie
The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Mexico--hoping that she will forget her "Red" boyfriend--by a young, handsome soldier named Jeff who, while somewhat of a goof-up, the general believes is still better for her.
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Calm Yourself
Title: Calm Yourself
Character: Preston Patton
Released: June 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
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Vagabond Lady
Title: Vagabond Lady
Character: Tony Spear
Released: May 3, 1935
Type: Movie
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
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West Point of the Air
Title: West Point of the Air
Character: Little Mike Stone
Released: March 23, 1935
Type: Movie
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
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The Bands Plays On
Title: The Bands Plays On
Character: Tony Ferrera
Released: December 21, 1934
Type: Movie
A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
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Death on the Diamond
Title: Death on the Diamond
Character: Larry Kelly
Released: September 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, mobsters are trying to prevent the wins, and as the pennant race nears the end, Pop's star players begin to be killed, on and off the field. Can Larry romance Pop's daughter, win enough games, and still have time to stop a murderer before he strikes more than three times?
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Paris Interlude
Title: Paris Interlude
Character: Pat
Released: July 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...
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Whom the Gods Destroy
Title: Whom the Gods Destroy
Character: Jack Forrester
Released: July 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to produce a show but the ship strikes a derelict wreckage and is sinking rapidly. In the ensuing wild panic, Forrester saves many lives, until finally, panic stricken by sudden fear, he dons a woman's clothes and is among the rescued. On the coast of Newfouldland, the villagers, not aware of his true identity, curse him but he is befriended by Alec who helps him conceal his identity. With a planned story of his survival, he returns to New York but cannot face his family or friends after he sees the plaque to his heroism on his New York theatre. Deciding to remain thought of as dead, he becomes a derelict himself, surviving on odd jobs as he watches from afar his now-grown son begin his career as a producer.
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Hollywood Party
Title: Hollywood Party
Character: Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws him a big Hollywood star-studded party so that he might use the lions in his next movie. But, his film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.
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The House of Rothschild
Title: The House of Rothschild
Character: Capt. Fitzroy
Released: April 7, 1934
Type: Movie
The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance the war against Napoleon, but it's not always easy, especially because of the prejudices against Jews.
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Lazy River
Title: Lazy River
Character: William 'Bill' Drexel
Released: March 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
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Spitfire
Title: Spitfire
Character: John Stafford
Released: March 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a dam, who protects her.
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Carolina
Title: Carolina
Character: Will Connelly
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
During Civil War Reconstruction, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly marries a Yankee farm girl, Joanna Tate, despite the objects of his temperamental father Bob Connelly.
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The Right To Romance
Title: The Right To Romance
Character: Bobby Preble
Released: November 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Against her better judgment, a dedicated and hard-working plastic surgeon (Ann Harding) finds herself falling in love with a playboy (Robert Young). Drama.
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Saturday's Millions
Title: Saturday's Millions
Character: Jim Fowler
Released: September 30, 1933
Type: Movie
Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girlfriend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girlfriend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home.
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Tugboat Annie
Title: Tugboat Annie
Character: Alec (Son)
Released: August 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Valiant Dressler keeps things moving even as hubby ruins their tugboat business.
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Hell Below
Title: Hell Below
Character: Lieut. (JG) 'Brick' Walters
Released: June 8, 1933
Type: Movie
On leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married, but is the daughter of his submarine's commander. Friction between the two officers becomes intolerable once at sea and after Commander Toler is forced to abandon Tommy's best friend topside while the sub dives to escape enemy planes, Tommy is no longer able to contain his anger.
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Today We Live
Title: Today We Live
Character: Claude William Hope
Released: March 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."
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Men Must Fight
Title: Men Must Fight
Character: Geoffrey Aiken
Released: February 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.
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Strange Interlude
Title: Strange Interlude
Character: Gordon Evans as a young man
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.
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The Kid from Spain
Title: The Kid from Spain
Character: Ricardo
Released: November 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Eddie and his Mexican friend Ricardo are expelled from college after Ricardo put Eddie in the girl's dormitory when he was drunk. Per chance Eddie gets mixed up in a bank robbery and is forced to drive the robbers to safety. To get rid of him they force him to leave the USA for Mexico, but a cop is following him. Eddie meets Ricardo there, Ricardo helps him avoid being arrested by the cop when he introduces Eddie as the great Spanish bullfighter Don Sebastian II. The problem is, the cop is still curious and has tickets for the bullfight. Eddie's situation becomes more critical, when he tries to help Ricardo to win the girl he loves, but she's engaged to a "real" Mexican, who is, unknown to her father, involved in illegal business. While trying to avoid all this trouble, Eddie himself falls in love with his friend's girl friend's sister Rosalie, who also want to see the great Don Sebastian II to kill the bull in the arena.
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Unashamed
Title: Unashamed
Character: Dick Ogden
Released: July 2, 1932
Type: Movie
A debutante's (Helen Twelvetrees) brother (Robert Young) stands trial for killing her no-good lover.
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New Morals for Old
Title: New Morals for Old
Character: Ralph Thomas
Released: June 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Proper parents who treat their adult children as teenagers have a son who wants to go to Paris to study art, and a daughter in love with a married man.
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The Wet Parade
Title: The Wet Parade
Character: Kip Tarleton
Released: March 26, 1932
Type: Movie
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
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Hell Divers
Title: Hell Divers
Character: Graham - Pilot Reporting Missing Airplanes (uncredited)
Released: January 16, 1932
Type: Movie
The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.
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The Guilty Generation
Title: The Guilty Generation
Character: Marco Ricca, also known as Marco Smith
Released: November 19, 1931
Type: Movie
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.
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The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Title: The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Character: Dr.Claudet
Released: October 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
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The Black Camel
Title: The Black Camel
Character: Jimmy Bradshaw
Released: June 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic Tarneverro first. Enter inspector Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police, investigating the unsolved murder, three years earlier, of a Hollywood actor.
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The Campus Vamp
Title: The Campus Vamp
Character: Student at Dance / at Beach (uncredited)
Released: November 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Love triangle in a campus with a blonde girl that really seems to not consider the "other" girl as an obstacle. Who will make it? And actually who cares when parties, sport games and lots of fun are available?